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Articles written by Lynn Matluck Brooks
Open Call for tD Writers! – now closed
June 4, 2019
We are looking for NEW thINKingDANCE WRITERS and encourage the following
Ravishing Baroque Dance at Ravensong
October 25, 2018
“Early music” (typically pre-1800) has caught on in the United
Dancing Beautiful Despair: Romeo & Juliet
October 14, 2018
Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo & Juliet (1965), a company debut for Pennsylvania Ballet, dwells
Glass Handel: Shattering Opera
September 24, 2018
What if you had lots of talent, fame, friends, faves,
Fringe Picks: 5 tD Writers on What They’re Seeing this Year and Why
August 16, 2018
The FringeArts Festival, no matter your take on it, is a
Ballet Hispánico in the Hinterland
August 15, 2018
For the last several summers, the magical music festival in Mt.
Maria Marten: Melodrama Makes a Comeback
June 18, 2018
In a quest to reach new audiences for performing arts
The Work that Dance Writing Does: Workshops with Sherril Dodds and Carolyn Merritt
May 4, 2018
Part I, by Lynn Brooks As part of our ongoing
Teaming Up: tD and Mighty Writers
April 28, 2018
This spring, we at thINKingDANCE [tD] piloted our first youth
March 21, 2018
Isadora Duncan (1877-1927), Paul Taylor (b. 1930), Trisha Brown (1936-2017)—what
The Core and the Corps of Swan Lake
March 11, 2018
I didn’t expect to, but I loved Pennsylvania Ballet’s Swan Lake. Why?
Tormented Genius: Jerome Robbins
February 4, 2018
A man of many parts—dancer, choreographer, director, visual artist, writer,
January 29, 2018
Some faces are unforgettable. Such a one is Arthur Mitchell’s,
Architectures of Time and Space
December 13, 2017
As a person who qualifies for senior discounts on public
Dance’s Past: Time is Running Out
October 12, 2017
It’s two minutes before the end of the UArts class
September 24, 2017
It was, for sure, an experience. After dutifully doffing shoes
September 18, 2017
Settling into my seat at the new Proscenium Theatre at
September 18, 2017
In twenty-five minutes of musical-theatrical hilarity, Aurora Classical shared Lee Hoiby’s take
A Tribute and a Promise – PAB Closes out the Season
May 16, 2017
Amy Aldridge danced her last show with Pennsylvania Ballet on
Pirates, Pashas, and Pretty Women
March 13, 2017
Harem girls, lovable pirates, and befuddled pashas constitute the world
Dance: Soft Diplomacy in the Cold War
February 23, 2017
Two years after the stimulating symposium, Russian Movement Culture of the
Engaging Entanglements: Duende
January 17, 2017
New music/classical music; live music/live dance; dancing bodies/tangled textiles. These
Jim May: A Beautiful Friendship with Philadelphia
January 9, 2017
Within a month of his move to Philadelphia’s Art Museum
December 3, 2016
This performance communicated a sense of both struggle and accomplishment
Cracking Up In Chaos: Pandaemonium
September 16, 2016
Nichole Canuso’s Pandaemonium, one of FringeArts’ curated shows this year, is
Through the Café Glass: Leah Stein’s Portal
September 16, 2016
Looking out the glass doorway and wide front windows of Frieda’s
September 7, 2016
For thirty years, Mt. Gretna has been my summertime haven for woods,
Precarious River: Beck Epoch on the Schuylkill
July 22, 2016
Rio. Brussels. Jerusalem. Dallas. Nice. Turkey. Baton Rouge — a
Arrows at Racism in Dance and Beyond: Brenda Dixon Gottschild
June 25, 2016
Brenda Dixon Gottschild, performance researcher and writer, emerita professor at
They Play, They Dance, They Improv!
May 4, 2016
Thirty shows of improvisational collaboration—that’s something! Such is Mascher Space’s
Don Quixote: Digging the Details
March 7, 2016
Don Quixote is known in the ballet world as something of
What’s New: Pennsylvania Ballet’s “Strength and Longing”
February 7, 2016
Artistic Director Angel Corella reveals his distinct vision for Pennsylvania
November 22, 2015
Nature or nurture—which most powerfully determines human behavior? This “sociological
November 3, 2015
Two thINKingDANCE authors intertwine their takes on performances at the
October 25, 2015
They can do it all: Pennsylvania Ballet dancers, that is. The opening
Three Sisters Run with the Wolves
September 6, 2015
Three Sisters and a Wolf is a first entry to the
September 6, 2015
Antonia Z. Brown’s Body of Water imagines the dancers “as different states
Writing Together about the Come Together Festival
August 3, 2015
One of the advantages of a showcase or festival-style summer
June 23, 2015
Lynn Matluck Brooks is a thINKingDANCE writer and editor. Christopher
Astonish Us: PAB’s Closing Season Program
June 13, 2015
Serge Diaghilev, legendary impresario of the Ballets Russes, instructed his
April 14, 2015
Flamenco evolved in intimate environments—back-street cafés, the caves of Granada,
